It’s pronounced "Yoosi," and before actually hearing the 32-year-old Finnish string player’s music – a combination of Middle Eastern and jazz sounds – some would think the idea of it is as foreign as his name.

But Jussi Reijonen’s new, mostly instrumental album "Un" is very accessible, ranging from the haunting beauty of his fretless guitar on "Toumani" to the pure excitement of his oud playing on "Serpentine."

Reijonen brings his collection of stringed instruments and his band to Amazing Things in Framingham Saturday to celebrate the release of "Un," which has been almost three years in the making, and features six of his own compositions, as well as a cover of John Coltrane’s "Naima."

The Brighton resident comes from a small town near the Arctic Circle in Finland, and spent most of his childhood moving around the world, due to his father’s work as a communications consultant.

"I was born in Finland, then lived two years in one country, then back to Finland, two years in another country, back to Finland. A lot of back and forth," said Reijonen. "But I’m still a Finnish citizen."

Though he wanted to be a drummer, and still recalls playing air drums while listening to Guns N’ Roses albums as a kid, circumstances (drums were too expensive, his friends were playing guitars) led him to ask his father for a guitar.

"It was after we moved from Tanzania back to Finland," said Reijonen. "I started to learn a lot of rock stuff on guitar, but during high school, my interests started to drift from distortion into more acoustic textures, like Django Reinhardt and Paco de Lucia. And from there onward, into jazz. That was also when I formed an acoustic trio with two friends and I started to compose music.

Then the oud, which Reijonen describes as "a fretless Middle Eastern lute, which has 11 strings and is the grandfather of the modern guitar," came into his life.

"I was backpacking through northern Morocco in 2003, and I had an instinct that I should buy an oud," he recalled. "I didn’t know much about the instrument, but felt that I needed to get one. I found one, bought it, and when I got back to Finland, I managed to find an Egyptian oud teacher, and I took some lessons."

Reijonen had also been studying guitar, and eventually moved to Boston to continue studies at Berklee, then earned a master’s degree at New England Conservatory.

His current band, the musicians with whom he recorded "Un," consists of people he’d been playing with during his time at Berklee."

They were students at the same time I was," he said. "I always kept my eye and ear out for people whose sound I really liked. If it felt good to play with them, I started to ask them about putting together some original music."

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Reijonen graduated Berklee in 2010 and was ready to step into the studio with those self-penned tunes. But the small print on the back on "Un" reveals that a large problem had to be conquered. There’s a thank you to Dr. Kai Sirnio "for saving my arm and making it possible for me to play again."

Asked about that, Reijonen said, "We were planning to record the album in October. But in August I was in Finland, visiting home. My girlfriend and I were up in a sightseeing tower, looking at the view. When I was coming down, my foot slipped on the ladder, and I threw my left arm behind me to catch on to something. But my full weight came down on my arm and it tore my bicep loose. I ended up having reconstructive surgery where they reattached the bicep. So I was in recovery for a while, doing a lot of physiotherapy because I couldn’t play."

Now completely recovered, Reijonen will take the stage of Amazing Things with two electric guitars – one fretted, one fretless – and his oud, in quartet format.

"It’ll mostly be the record," he said of the planned program. "But we’ll also do some other tunes that we’ve been playing live, and we might throw in some additional stuff, some arrangements of material by other people that I’ve been working on. And we’ll definitely be playing the Coltrane piece."